Changing door skin

Drilling old spot welds off, removing panel, spot welding on new panel, grinding back welds then spraying.

No.

Yes.

Thanks.

as is slicing your hands to bits, snapping wires, and wondering why it's such a bastard to put windows back in

Many body shops replace the skin with the door in place and not stripped.

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indeed, whereas the OP is planning on doing it by himself, probably at home....

If you want a cheap and nasty solution then simply grind off the old skin and crimp/glue the new skin in place. Probably a better idea to paint after it's on.

Dunno about cheap and nasty - that's the way many skins are fixed from the factory. Glueing is likely to produce a better water seal. But is there a suitable aftermarket glue available?

Yep, 3m sell it, most decent autobody suppliers stock it

I was, but don't have welder. I'm not very good at bodywork anyway, far more likely to end up with a car minus a door rather than a repaired door :-) Better solution (for me) is a door from a scapyard, going to be in much better condition than mine, won't need painting which saves considerable cost and will simply bolt straight on, well almost. Just need a bit of a T cut to match the finish and a good polish.

Steve

stickaflex or sumink

The SD1 uses glue, but with some welds too. Would a modern glue be suitable without the welds?

Probably, you still need to prep it really well to get glue to work, on a

Be easy enough to bare metal the flange I'd have thought after removing the old skin.

I was more concerned about the fact that most re-skinned doors tend to rust through even more quickly, due, I suppose, to the problems with painting the inside properly.

Of the original 4 on my SDI, the driver's one frame is the worst, and that was re-skinned professionally after a bash. All the other frames are fine, but side is slightly 'ripply' through poor repair before I got it.

So out of four, I've only got one perfect door.

I bought four sound secondhand doors only to find on stripping that their skins had been repaired and were 'ripply' too.

So I've got four new skins waiting to be fitted, but want to end up with a sound job which will last as well as looking good. Bl***y black cars...